Quotes About Innovation

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

New roads; new ruts.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.